Putting your faith in ACTION!

DiggingDeeper

This morning let’s not be just ‘hearers’ of the Word, but ‘doers of the word. Take some time at lunch, dinner, or bedtime to DIG DEEPER into the today’s lesson and story. Take a few moments to apply today’s lesson to our lives.

ASK MYSELF…challenging questions for the heart:

1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?2. What are the main elements of a testimony?3. Why do you think the blood and the testimony are the two items

listed here for victory over Satan?4. Have you ever experienced the power of God as a result of

hearing/giving a testimony?5. Who can you share your testimony with this week?

FOR THE FAMILY…challenging questions for family life:

1. Read together Revelation 12:10-11 & Colossians 2:13-142. Discuss the what God has done for each person in your family.

Discuss His incredible love and how it has changed your lives.3. Who do you know that might need encouragement by this good

news?4. Pray together.

Today’s ServiceMarch 25th, 2017

Part 1“Victory”

Pastor Brian Stanley

There is power in _______.

Revelation 12:1-12 (NLT) 1 Then I witnessed in heaven an event of great significance. I saw a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant, and she cried out because of her labor pains and the agony of giving birth. 3 Then I witnessed in heaven another significant event. I saw a large red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, with seven crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky, and he threw them to the earth. He stood in front of the woman as she was about to give birth, ready to devour her baby as soon as it was born. 5 She gave birth to a son who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away from the dragon and was caught up to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place to care for her for 1,260 days. 7 Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels. 8 And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven.9 This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels. 10 Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens, “It has come at last—salvation and power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down to earth— the one who accuses them before our God day and night. 11 And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony. And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die. 12 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens! And you who live in the heavens, rejoice! But terror will come on the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you in great anger, knowing that he has little time.”

We Have The Victory!

1. Christ is our ______ and ___________!2. The accuser has _______ his case and his access to the

_________!

Romans 8:33-39 (NLT) 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. 35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

3. Two great instruments of our victory:a. (By) The blood of the ______b. (By) The word of their ____________

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